reversals

Complete about-face maneuvers

Reversals are turnarounds—changes to an opposite direction, position, or outcome.

A court reversal overturns a lower court's decision.

A reversal of fortune shifts circumstances from good to bad or vice versa: The company's reversal stunned investors who had expected continued growth.

In film, a reversal is a plot point that upends expectations.

physical

flip

Quick turning motion

overturn · invert · upend · rotation · twist · pivot · spin · turnabout · capsize · upturn

retraction

apology

Statement acknowledging wrongdoing

denial · abjuration · repudiation · backpedaling · disclaimer · walkback · about-face · climbdown · mea culpa · correction

annulment

overturning

Causing to flip

nullification · rescission · invalidation · abrogation · countermanding · voiding · undoing · dissolution · abolition · quashing

mirror

reflection

Returned light or thought

palindrome · chiasmus · retrograde · backwards · transpose · inverse · converse · obverse · reciprocal · correspondence

fortune

turnaround

Shift in opposite direction

rebound · upturn · swing · shift · change · transformation · twist of fate · plot twist · irony · karma

setback

downturn

Economic decline period

backslide · deterioration · worsening · slump · nosedive · collapse · crash · defeat · loss · misfortune

Categories
Opposites
direction of change

reversalscontinuations

Things that proceed onward

progressions · advancements · continuances · perpetuations · extensions

legal/official decisions

reversalsaffirmations

Positive self-directed statements

approvals · confirmations · upholds · enactments · ratifications

fortune/circumstance

reversalsadvances

Forward movements or progress

gains · improvements · breakthroughs · successes · triumphs

Phrases
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